Gorge on late-summer fruit with this tangy orange fruit dip
Late summer fruit is perhaps my favorite. Berries are juicy and sweet, in their last flourish before slipping away into elite and expensive status. Peaches and plums are soft and caramel-like in...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Three Utah State games will stream on Facebook; ESPN still...
The Utah State football team will be on Facebook quite a bit this fall — a quarter of its regular season. We’re not talking about the players going online. Three USU games — Sept. 7 vs. Idaho State,...
View ArticleOusted Navajo Head Start leader says she was illegally dismissed, faced...
Farmington, N.M. • The ousted superintendent for Navajo Head Start says she was illegally dismissed from the program last month and often faced harassment.The Daily Times of Farmington, New Mexico,...
View ArticleMonson: Nature can be one vicious mother, and the BYU-LSU football game bends...
Just when you think football is king, when football thinks it is king, when it considers itself the most important thing in the world, Mother Nature rolls in and kicks it aside, makes it scramble, and,...
View ArticleElectronic device explodes in backpack at Taylorsville High School, causes...
A small electronic device in a Taylorsville high school student’s backpack exploded Tuesday morning, causing minor injuries to three students, officials said.The explosion occurred about 9:45 a.m.,...
View ArticleSpeaker Hughes, Mayor Biskupski air dispute over Operation Rio Grande on the...
House Speaker Greg Hughes and Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski took an apparent dispute over Operation Rio Grande to the radio airwaves on Tuesday.Hughes told KSL’s Doug Wright he was ”frustrated”...
View ArticleUtah's governor in Singapore, Vietnam for trade mission
Gov. Gary Herbert flew to Singapore on Thursday and will remain there until he heads to Vietnam on Tuesday.Utah is a big player in the world's economy. Our trade mission to Singapore aims to make...
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Catherine Rampell : Trump may see himself in Joe Arpaio
Washington • There are lots of compelling reasons not to pardon the country’s most famous racist in the middle of a hurricane.So why exactly did President Trump decide to pardon Joe Arpaio?Maybe, some...
View ArticleRacial content sweeps away 'Gone With the Wind' screening
Memphis, Tenn. • A Tennessee theater has canceled a long-running screening of “Gone With the Wind” because of racially insensitive content in the classic 1939 film.Officials at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre...
View ArticleLogan woman named Utah hunter educator of the year
Becky Smith has spent 21 years teaching hunter education and gun safety to mostly eager young students.That dedication earned the Logan resident the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ award for the...
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A guide to hunting in Utah, a year-round game
As the days get shorter and late summer morphs into fall, thousands of Utah hunters prepare to head into the mountains, fields and marshes.Some are already there. The deer archery season began in...
View ArticleUtah State football notes: Aggie newcomers shake up status quo in starting...
Logan • Days before the season opener at Wisconsin, it looks like more than a few newcomers will be starting for USU against the Badgers.That includes redshirt freshman Jordan Nathan at wide receiver...
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Jennifer Rubin: Mr. President, the flood victims should come first, not your...
The exaggerated and unfair criticism of President George W. Bush in viewing the devastation of Hurricane Katrina from the air now afflicts all presidents. Afraid of being labeled insensitive and not...
View ArticleUtah football: Do the North Dakota Fighting Hawks have a fighter’s chance?
They’re led by a man who goes by Bubba.They’re a little more than an hour away from the Canadian border.They’re the reigning Big Sky Conference champions.And yes, the North Dakota Fighting Hawks have...
View ArticleProvo-Orem transit project is full steam ahead as opponents drop legal...
Citizens groups have abandoned legal challenges aimed at halting a controversial $190 million bus rapid transit (BRT) project in Provo and Orem, after a 4th District judge ruled Monday against one of...
View ArticleWhy do people join hate groups? Former members explain
Cries of “Nazis, go home!” and “Shame! Shame!” filled the air as Angela King and Tony McAleer stood with other counterprotesters at the “free speech” rally in Boston two weekends ago.They didn’t join...
View ArticleLetter: Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it
Memo to Rep. Paul Ray, (R-Clearfield; anti-California): Sir, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.A viable secession movement in California would be highly likely to trigger...
View ArticleGroup sets hearings for ballot initiative aimed at curbing ‘gerrymandering’...
The Better Boundaries ballot initiative has scheduled seven public hearings this week to discuss its proposal to form an independent commission to handle once-every-decade redrawing of congressional...
View ArticleJudge: Lynyrd Skynyrd film violates 3-decade-old 'blood oath'
New York • A film created with help from a former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer violates a “blood oath” surviving band members made not to exploit the band’s name and history, a judge concluded as he blocked...
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Former Trump spokesman Sean Spicer finally meets Pope Francis
Washington • Sean Spicer finally got to meet the pope.Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirms the former White House press secretary attended a meeting with Pope Francis on Sunday.The audience was part...
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